TIME. Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt, Lid (Test Ref.: MC101101) INSTRUCTIONS 1. Read the instructions given at the beginning/end ofa section or group of questions very carefully. 2. The total time for the testis 135 minutes. You may apportion this time among various sections as you wish. However you are expected to show your competence in all the three sections of the test. 3. Pattern of the test and marking scheme Siciea Questions | Number of Marks Negative questions er question marks Quantitative Ability 1-20 20 3 1 Logie & Data Interpretation 2149 2 2 d Verbal Ability 41-60 20 3 1 Total 60 4, Each wrong answer will attract a penalty of one mark. 5. There are no negative marks for unattempted questions. 6. You can navigate to any question of your choice, 7. During the test, you ean mark questions for teview and return to them at a convenient time. 8. An answer once marked can be changed any number of times before submitting the test. However the last marked answer will be considered as the final answer. 9. Do not cary calculators, slide rules or any other calculating devices. Do not carry any other papers with you except your HALL TICKET. Rough papers for calculations will be provided. Share your views on this AIMCAT with thousands of other test takers on “talktime” www.time4education.com/talktime TIME. “Taumghsen Instessa ot Manager Education Pt LitSECTION -1 Number of Questions = 20 Directions for questions 1 to 6: Answer the question independently of the other questions. What is the minimum value of the sum of the ‘squares of the roots of the equation x? = («r= 2)x + (a5) = 0, where ais a positive number? (0 @) 2 5 (4) Cannot be determined 2. When 952 divides @ number, the remainder left is 124, Find the remainder left if 68 divides the same number. () 14 @ 28 @) 40) 8 3. ix= 242% +2" thon which of the following is true? (1) 2€ +6x-2é+3=0 (2) 6 +x-12+6=0 (8) 26x + 6x— (@) 8128 +x-4=0 4.-The function ft) = e— 1] + 2.8 — x] + [x— 3}, where xis @real number, can atin a minimum value of M1 @2 3 28 5. A tank can be filed by two taps - Tap I and Tap II The volume of the tank is 6000 litres. Tap 1 fils the tank at a rate of 1 Iitre/second, Tap I fils the tank at a rate of 3 litres in 2 seconds. On a particular day, Tap Il is opened 33'/5 minutes after the time at which Tap 1 is opened. If after 45 minutes from the time when Tap I was opened, the tank develops hole which empties the tank at the rate of 235 itres/second, how fullis the tank in 2 hours from the time when Tap I opened? 1 3 oF om oF w 4218 5000 6. The name of ‘Modem Food Stores" is displayed on @ board at a junction using neon lights. When the board is switched on, the lights in each word follow a cyclic patter of tuning on and off. The frst word remains lighted for 1% seconds and then remains switched off for 2 seconds. The second word remoins switched on for 3%! seconds and then remains swiched off for 2 seconds, The third word remains switched on for 7/2 seconds and then remains switched off for 2 seconds. Ifthe board is switched on, what isthe smallest interval, after which the entre display wil again tun on simultaneously? (1) 61.8 seconds (2) 97.5 seconds (G) 8075 seconds (4). 4848 seconds Directions for questions 7 and 8: Answer the question ‘on the basis of the information given below. Triplets consisting of three different numbers are formed from numbers 1 10 10. 7. How many of these triplets are such that the sum of the numbers is divisible by 37 () 37) 2) 42) 96 A) 48 8. How many of the triplets formed are such that the sum of the numbers is divisible by 9 and they do not have a9 in them? @9 M7 @6 (4) 10 Directions for questions 9 to 12: Answer the question independently of the other questions. 9. Whats the value of the expression given below? 1 : 1 fe——_1—_ -a oe es, et ait e e ¥ (1) 1.33 (2) 1.25 @1 (@) None of these 10. The graph below gives a function f(x), represented by thickened line segments. From’ among the choices given, choose the function that best describes f(x). @) fe) =f (4) 10) = 1-1 11. A square PORS is constucted in an equilateral triangle ABC, such that P and S lie on the sides AB land AC respectively, while Q and R lis on side BC. If Z8PC = 6, then (1) @> 108" (2) 90° <8 < 105" @) 0=90° (4) 75° <0<90" 12. Twenty persons went on a picnic. Three out of every five in the group do not like pulav but two out of every four carried pulav with them. Then, we can conclude that (1) at least two persons who do not like pulav carried pulav with them. (2) at least eight persons who do not like pulav carried pulav with them. (3) at the most eight persons who do not like pulav carried pulav with them. (4) at the most two persons wha do not ike pulav carried pulav with them, Directions for questions 13 and 14: Answer the question on the basis ofthe information given below. Let E,=2-4+6-6 + 10 -—~ (-1)"", (2n) and Fy = 441-24 1243-6436 +9-18 —nterms. 13. What is the value of Esse? (1) -220 (2) -202 (3) 440 (4) None of these 14, 126,43 a7 18 then what is the value of n? 2) 23 (3) 89 (4) 42 “Triumphant institute of Management Education Pvt Lid, (TAME), 955, Sddamnseity Complex, Park Lane, Secunderabad S00 008 rights reserved, No part of this material may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in iting. “This course material is only forthe use of Bonafide students of Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt, Ltd. and its licensees franchisees and is ot forse (9 pages) (aeca/aecb) Metorio4/tDirections for questions 15 to 20: Answer the question Independently of the other questions. 415, There are two concentric circles. The radius of the duter circle i 8.5 cm and the length of the longest chord ofthe outer Ge that doesnt cut trough the inner cele is 8 cm, What fraction ofthe bigger circle isnot covered by the smaller crce? 64 8 225 “0 289 ® 7 8 289 89 ® 5 416. Three numbers in geometric progression are such that if 64 is decreased from the largest, then the three numbers thus obtained would be in arithmetic, progression. Further ifthe middle number of tne new set of numbers is reduced by 8, the numbers thus obtained would be in geometric progression. Find the midle term of the original sequence. a6 (2) 20 @ 2 (4) Cannot be determined 47. Find prt: qsu, given that p: r= 2:3, q 3 r 9)s:u=3:2andt:q=3:4 4 8 16 32 OF ®F OF WF 418, Find the number of five-digit multiples of 4, which can be formed using the digits from 1 to 7, using each digit at most once. (1) 720” @) 84 (3) B40 (4) 600 49, Ina company, the number of married employees is a prime number. Which of the folowing cannot be tho ratio of the total number of employees and the ‘number of unmarried employees? (1) 173:90 (2) 193:80 (3) 181532 (4) 20132 20. The speeds of Aniket, Brihat and Chatur are in the ratio of 4: 3: 2. If Chatur takes half an hour more than Brihat to travel from P to Q, what isthe total time taken by Aniket to travel from P to Q and then back from Q to P? (1) 120 minutes (@) 60 minutes (2) 90 minutes (4) 45 minutes, SECTION ~It Number of Questions = 20 Directions for questions 21 to 24: Answer the question Con the basis of the information given below. ‘A company has six production units, seven godowns and nine sales distributors. The production units are PA, PB, PC, PD, PE and PF. The godowns are GA, GB, GC, GD, GE, GF and GG. The sales distributors are SAA, SAB, SAC, SAD, SAE, SAF, SAG, SAH and SAI. Table I gives the cost (in Rs.) of transporting one unit from different production units to the godowns. Table Il gives the cost {in Rs.) of transporting ene unit from different godowns to the sales distributors, Table -1 PA [PB | Pc | PO] PE] PF GA] 7245 | 471.3 | 4237 | 4413 | 4618 | 6275 Ge | 2132 | S07. | 681.3 | 6285 | 6285 [cc | sae] sare] 0 | 4923 | 6885 ‘Gb | 310.2 | 121.3 | 206.3 | 687.4 | 502.3 | 752.4 GE | 934.6 | 197.6 | 278.2 | 921.1 | 9316 | 826.3 358.3 8214 Table -1 CAL [co] GD] | oF] GG SAA[azi4|7315|23t4|re1.1| 0 6482) 4714) ‘SAB [436.5] 721.3] 264.1|703.4| 121.3] 591.4] 402.5| [sac] 391.5]703.4]291.3] 331.4] 191.2[543.4|363.4| [SAD] 178.6|256.3|273.4| 291.6 |431.5| 481.3|521.3| SAE[231.4[201.4] 0 [161.5] 381.7] 408.4] 193.4 SAF [323.1] 456.5] 431.6|253.8| 761.8] 396.1 |261.5| [saG]479.6|231.7|543.4| 171.8[639.4| 0 [234.3] [SAH] 631.4] 161.8|581.4| 250.7 | o01.5|273.4|367.2 ‘SAI [547.0] 192.0] 381.5] 107.5 641.3] 196.3] 121.5 21. What is the least cost (in Rs.) of transporting one Unit from any production unitto any sales distributor? (1) 1876 @) 1213 @ 0) BATE 22. What is the least cost (in Rs.) of transporting one Unit from the production unit PD to the sales distributor SAA? (1) 924 (3) 7237 (2) 862.7 (8) None of these 23. How many possible ways are there for transporting the goods from any production unit to any sales distributor? (1) 42 @) 63 (3) 105 (4) 378 24, What is the maximum cost (in Rs.) of transporting ‘one unit from any production unit to any sales distributor? (1) 1873.1 (3) 1861.4 (2) 1876.4 (4) None of these Directions for question 25: The question has a set of four statements, Each statement has three segments, Choose the alternative where the third segment can be logically deduced using both the preceding two, but not just one of them. 28. 1. No crackers sparkle. Some which sparkle are electric bombs. Some electric bombs are not crackers, Il All voleanoes are twisters. Some volcanoes do rot burst. Some twisters do not burst. ML All gamblers play cricket. Those who play cricket are players. Some gamblers are not players. IV. Some lunatic people are mentally handicapped. All lunatic people are lucky. Some mentally handicapped are lucky. (1) L.toniy (2) Ill, Vonly (3) LIM only (4) Ll. Wony “Triumphant isttute of Management Education Pt Lid (FAME) HO: OSB, Moor, Sidanscty Comples, Secunderabad 500 O05 ‘Tel: 040-2780819495 ax 040-27847334 emal ifovtimeteducation.com website: wwwitimeteducationcom — MCIOIION2Directions for questions 26 and 27: The question given below is followed by two statements, 1 and IL Study the information given in the two statements. Assess whether the statements are sufficient to answer the question and choose the appropriate option among the given choices. Mark A. The question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered by using the other statement alone. Mark B The question can be answered by using either statement alone. Mark © The question can be answered by using both statements together, but cannot be answered by using either statement alone. Mark D The question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together. 26. Isa>b? 1. 8—(—b)*is a positive number. Il. 4—(a—b}¥is a negative number. 27. a, b, and c are three distinct integers. ‘greatest ofthe three? 1. a's less than at least one of the two integers bande. Tl ¢ is less than at least one of the two integers aandb. Is b the Directions for questions 26 to 31: Answer the question on the basis of the information given below. ‘The sector wise percentage distribution of jobs created in each of, five different cities during the month of January Percentage Delhi Mumbai Chennai Hyderabad Bangalore TIT &IT-Enabled Engineering Finance ElMarketing Others ‘The total number of jobs created during the month of January in ll the five cities together is 10,000. ‘The following two pie-charts give further information regarding the total jobs mentioned in the above bar graph. Pie chart — I gives the city wise percentage distribution of the total number of jobs created in the month of January. Pie chart ~ Il gives the sector wise percentage distribution of the tolal number of jobs created in the “Others” category in the month of January across all the five cities together. PIE CHART -1 Chennai 20% Hyderabad 10% Mumbai 40% Bangalore 10% Delhi 20% 28. Considering the five cities, the total number of jobs created in the Pharma sector is what percentage of the total number of jobs created in the Engineering sector? (1) 384% (3) 0.384% (2) 38.4% (@) None of these PIE CHART-I HR Medical 20% 25% Academics Media aS 18% Hospitality Pharma, 5% 12% 28. The number of HR jobs created in Mumbai is what percentage more than the number of Media jobs treated in Bangalore? (1) 10% (2) 25% (3) 20% (4) Cannot be determined ‘Tromiphant isttute of Management Education Pu. Lid. (LMLE) HO: O58, 2" Floor, Siddanseiy Compe slo@timeteducation.com website: www timededucaion com ‘Tel: 040-27898194)95 Fux :040-27847334 emai Secunderabad 500 008 Meroi01s130. The difference between the total number of Finance jobs and Marketing jobs created in all the five cities together is (1) 120° (2) 1000 (3) 2500 (4) 2000 31. The total number of Hospitality jobs created in all the five cities tegether is what percantage of the total number of jobs created in Hyderabad? (1) 4% (2) 0.25% (3) 40% (4) 25% Directions for questions 32 and 33: Answer the {question independently ofthe other questions. 32. A dealer purchased a total of 60 pairs of coloured and white shoes, all ether Reebok shoes or Adidas shoes. The dealer arranged these pairs of shoes by different categories and found the following. The number of pairs of white casual Adidas shoes is a two-digit positive number. The number of pairs of ‘white casual Adidas shoes equals the number of pairs of white casual Reebok shoes. All non-white Adidas shoes were formals and there are four times ‘28 many of them as there are white formal Adidas shoes. There are no casual Reebok shoes that are ‘ot white. There are exactly 10 pairs of white formal Reebok shoes. There are exactly 20 pairs of Reebok shoes that are nelther casuals nor white coloured. Find the number of white formal Adidas shoes. M2 @4 — @) 0 @) 20 33, Four officers, designated as CEO, COO, CFO, and CIO, read a certain number of newspapers early in the morning. One of them roade four newspapers, another reads three newspapers, the third reads {wo newspapers while the fourth one roads one newspaper, Below are some additonal facts regarding the names ofthese officers. i) Michael isn't the CFO. il) Johnis the C10, i) Michael isnt the CEO and he reads more riumber of newspapers than Paterson iv). The one whois the CEO reads more number of newspapers than Patterson The person who is the COO reads the maximum number of newspapers. vi). Anderson doesnt read two newspapers Which of the following statements is necessarily true? (1) John is the CIO and reads 2 newspapers. (2) Patterson is the CFO and reads 1 newspaper. (3) Anderson is the CEO and reads 3 newspapers. (8) Michaelis the CFO and reads 4 newspapers Directions for questions 34 and 35: The question given below is followed by two statements, 1 and IL Study the information given in the two statements. ‘Assess whether the statements are sulficient to answer the question and choose the appropriate option among the given choices, Mark A The question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered by using the other statement alone. Mark B The question can be answered by using either statement alone. MarkG The question can be answered by using both statements together, but cannot be answered by using either statement alone. MarkD The quastion cannot be answered even by Using both the staternents together. 34, The centre ofthe circle is at O (0, 0). Points A and B lie on the circle and also on the y-axis. P is a point (on the positive x-axis. Radius of the circle is JB. Is ZOAP > 45°? 1 OP>3 i OP<5 35. Each of the four boys named M, N, O and U has a different fruits among guava, apple, orange and apricot. Between M and N, one person had apple and the other one had apricot. Which boy has which fruit? 1. Mhas the apple. Ml Ohas the guava. Directions for question 36: Answer the question independently of the other questions. 36. Eight persons - A, 8, C, 0, E, F, G and H— sitina row facing the same direction, not necessarily in the same order. These eight persons belong to two different families. Each family comprises a father, 2 ‘mother, a son and a daughter. The persons sit such that no two members of the same family are next to ‘each other and the two fathers sit at either ends of the row. Further, the follwing information is available: {)_ Ais the father of C, whose mother is G. (i) H and E belong to different families and are of different genders. (ii) Bis the brother of E (iv) G and F are of the came gender. (Y) Asits at the left ond of the row. (ui) Each childs siting next to atleast one mother and, ‘each mother i silting next to atleast one child (vil) F and B belong to the same family. In how many different ways can these eight people sit? (1) Two (2) Four (3) Six (4) Eight Directions for questions 37 to 40: Answer the question Cn the basis ofthe information given below. In an examination there are five questions - Q.1, @.2, Q3, Q4 and Q.5 — each with five choices (a), (b), (0). (6) and (2). Five students ~ A, B, C, D and E ~ wrote the exam. The choices opted by the students for the questions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are shown in the table below. (One mark is awarded for a right answer and no mark is awarded for a wrong answer. No two students got the ‘same total marks in these five questions, ‘Choice opted for Neme Taq [a2 | as | a¢] as x b | cl[alatle B cfoal[atels c efaf[asfo|e D e | a|ec|.|d E plc [ale ld It is observed that no two questions have the same choice as the right answer. 37. Who scored the least tolal marks? MB @A BD WME 38. What is correct answer choice for Q.3? (i) a 2b () ¢ (4) Cannot be determined ‘Tomphant Institute of Wanagement Education Pv La. ‘Tel: 040-27898194 EV HO: 05, 7 For, ‘040-27847334 emall: infocaximededueation.com website: www simededucation.com Siddamseiy Complex, Secunderabad 500005 Merori01s39. If A's score is more than E's score, then what is the score of B? ) 3 (2) 2 3) 1 (4) Cannot be determined SECTION Number of Questioi Directions for questions 41 and 42: The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has deen deleted. From the given options, choose the fone that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way, 41. The problem of unwarranted increase in the healthcare costs has arisen because the state has completely abdicated its responsibilities. If the government could get a functioning state-owned healthcare system going, competition would force the private sector to put its house in order. And the strength of the goverment network could be leveraged to procure drugs at negotiated price, obviating the need for any price controls. As 2 second line of defence, the state must invest in ccapacity-bullding to empower the consumer, which should include a framework for making the entire health care industry, including doctors and drug companies, more accountable. It could also reduce the information asymmetry by providing 2 list of alternatives to various branded drugs. And lastly, it must strive to make health insurance more pervasive, (1) This would put an end to the unethical industry: doctor nexus which may further lower the cost. (2) This would make healthcare affordable and also bring upon healthcare providers pressure from insurance companies to lower costs (9 This would lead the big pharmaceutical companies to respond to price control (4) This would force the pharma companies to pressurize the insurance companies to reduce the prernium on healthcare insurance. 42, We are obsessed with prices. We are particularly paranoid about rising prices. A charming exception '5 the stock price. We wish the price to go up and up, perpetually. Governments may fall if this price plunges sharply. It is a barometer, of the whole economy, present and future, not just of the stock market. It edipses other developments in the stock market. ___ (1) No diagnostic ‘study or analysis of the stock market is complete without the use of this barometer. (2) The stock index is a better barometer today in ‘comparison to what it was a decade ago. (3) A stock price index reveals the health of ‘companies and the economy. (4) Asstock price index hides more than it reveals. Directions for questions 43 and 44: In each of the following questions, the word at the top is used in four diferent ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE: 43, REACH (1) Home loans have brought houses within the reach of the common man. 40. If C's score is less than B's score, then what is the score of E? M1 @o 3 2 20 (2) The boat reached the island under the cover of darkness. (3) The union and the management falled to reach ‘an agreement. (4) Modern psychology seeks to explore the deep, reach of the human mind. 44, FILTER (1). Most of the vehicies fitered to the let. (2) The preliminary test filers out those students who are not good at mathematics (3) The new policies adopted by the management have not ye fitred down tothe staf. (4) As soon as the doors of the museum were ‘opened the people started fitering through. Directions for questions 45 and 46: Each question has a sentence with two blanks followed by four pairs of ‘words as choices. From the choices, select the pair of ‘words that can best complete the given sentence. 45. Satire is a marvellous reflection of the spit of an age; the subtle of Swift's epistles mirrored the eightoenth century's delight in elegant (1) profundity... dities (2) vitriol... disparagement (8) contempt... anachronisms (4) provinciaity . . rusticity 46. The fundamental between dogs and cats is for the most part @ myth; members of these ‘species often coexist (1) antipathy ... amicably (2) disharmony... easily (3) animosity... amiably (4) ‘relationship... . peacefully Directions for questions 47 to 49: Each question consists of a few sentences on a topic. Some sentences are grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Select the ‘option that indicates the grammatically CORRECT and APPROPRIATE sentence (S) 47. a. T.S. Eliot was a versatile writer. b. In his long creative career, he wrote poetry, prose, drama and critical essays. c. He worked also as a journalist and ecitor. d._ His writng can be divided into five periods. (1) aandd (2) candd (3) Ona (4) bande 48. a. There is an ugly side of the noble gesture of ‘organ donation b. Organ thefts of poor patients who come to the hospital for other treatments are frequently reported, c. However, the success rate of such cases is very low. 4d. This is due to the mismatch botwoen the tissues ‘of the donor and the recipient. (1) and b (2) Only (3) bandd (4) candd ‘THomiphant Inetiute of Management Education Pt Lid. (FAME) HO: 955, 2° Flour, Siddanvety Complex, Secunderabad SUVS Tel: 040-2789819495 Fax :040-27847334 email info@ximeteducaton.som website: wwwsime4education.com Meroni0Vs49. 2. A child's baby teeth may be worth lots in 2. No one is obliged to read all the books, yet we medical research ‘can talk and argue about them. b. American scientists discovered that pulp inside {. We can even have passionate literary exchanges baby teeth contains fast growing stem cells ‘on books we have not read a all ¢. These trigger bone and neural cel formation (1) edefab (2) cofdba (3) efdcba (4) caetbd 4. They also have potential to develop into different body cell types. 51. a There are additional benefits in the for) of (1) aendd (2) candd reduced travel time, fuel use and polation (3) Only (4) banda b. This is not surprising given the unsustainable levels of peak hour vehicle use particulary in Directions for questions 60 and 51: The sentences big cites, and the rise inthe price of fuel aiven in each of the following questions, when property But with'the suppor of the local government sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence ‘and the public sector it can become a part of 's labelled with @ letter. From among the four choices Public transport. given below each question, choose the most logical Informal car-sharing has always been popular order of sentences thal constructs a coherent paragraph. with the middle class but a more organized and a formal system of sharing vehicles is taking 50. a. Itis humanly impossible to read the hundreds of shape books which come out every month, fe. What it can do is improve the efficiency of b. By going through book covers, reviews and unavoidable car use by distributing the cost of gossips about authors anyone can take part in travel and easing congestion any iterary discussion. 1. Yel, according to many, carsharing cannot c Allof us lke to be, oF pretend to be wel read, totally replace the reliable, comforable, safe, take part in literary proceedings and papper our and affordable public transport. conversations with quotes. (1) defeac (2) dieabe (3) dbfeac (4) adcbet 4. The trick is to understand that even a slight familiarity with books and authors is enough to put on a show of enlightenment. Directions for questions 52 to 54: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it The sociological imagination isa special way to engage the word. To think sociological is to realize that what we experience as personal problems are often widely shared by others ke ourselves. Thus, mary personal problems are factually socal ssues. For Mile, one of socllogy’s most outspoken acs, the socoiogcal imagination encourages collective acton to change the word in some way Nowadays man often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within their everyday worlds, they ‘cannot overcome their troubles and in this fealing they are often quite correct: what ordinary men are directly aware of ‘and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighbourhood: in other milieu, they move vicariously and remain spectators. And the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the ‘more trapped they seem to feel Underlying this sense of being trapped are seemingly impersonal changes in the very structure of continent-wide societies. The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and the failure of individual men and women. When a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman. When classes rise or fall, a man is employed or unemployed: when the rate of investment goes up or down, a man takes new heart or goes broke. When wars happen, an insurance salesman becomes a rocket launcher, a store clerk, a radar man; a wife lives alone; a child grows up without a father. Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both ‘Yet men do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction. The well-being they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups and downs of the societies in which they live. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the pattems of thelr own lives and the course of world history, ordinary men do ‘not usually know what this connection means forthe kinds of men they are becoming an¢ forthe kinds of history-making in \which they might take part. They do not possess the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of man and society, of biography and history, of self and world. They cannot cope with their personal troubles in such ways as to control the struetural traneformations that usually ie behind ther. ‘Surely itis no wonder. In what period have so many men been so totaly exposed at so fast 2 pace to such earthquakes of change? That Americans have not known such catastrophic changes as have the men and women of other societies {is due to historical facts that are now quickly becoming “merely history.” The history that now affects every man is world history. Within this scene and this period, in the course of a single generation, one-sixth of mankind is transformed from all that is feudal and backward into all that is modem, advanced, and fearful. Poliical colonies are freed; new and less Visible foes of imperialism installed, Revolutions occur; men feel the intimate grip of new kinds of authority. Totalitarian societies rise, and are smashed to bits — or succeed fabulously. After two centuries of ascendancy, capitalism is shown Up as only one way to make society into an industrial apparatus. After two centuries of hope, even formal democracy is. restricted to a quite small portion of mankind. Everywhere in the underdeveloped world, ancient ways of Ife are broken ‘Tomphant Insitute of Wanagoment Education Pv Lid. (IME) HO: O58, 3° Floor, Siddamseny Complex, Secundsrabad 500005 ‘Tel: 040-2789819495 Fax 040-27847334 ema: infowtimededucationcom website : www.cimededucationcom —MCIOLION6Uup and vague expectations become urgent demands. Everywhere in the overdeveloped world, the means of authority and of violence become total in scope and bureaucratic in form. Humanity itself now lies before us, the super-nation at either pole concentrating its most coordinated and massive efforts upon the preparation of World War IL ‘The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. ‘And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis. Is it any wonder that ordinary men feel they cannot cope with the larger worlds with which they are so suddenly confronted? That they cannot understand the ‘meaning of their epoch for their own lives? That ~ in defense of selfhood — they become morally insensible, trying to remain altogether private men? Itis not only information that they need — in this Age of Fact, information often dominates their attention and overwhelms their capacities to assimilate it It is not only the skills of reason that they need — although their struggles to acquire these offen exhaust their limited moral energy. What they need, and what they feel they need, is 2 quality of mind that ill help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the ‘world and of what may be happening within themselves. It is this quality, | am going to contend, that journalists and scholars, artists and publics, scientists and editors are coming to expect of what may be called the sociological imagination. 52. ‘Men feel that their private lives are a series of traps’ (2) Man caught between the roles of a bread beceuse winner and an active participant in child rearing (1) they tend to compare their own goals, (3) The increasing trend of grandparents. being achievements etc. with those of men occupying forced to play the role of parents to their different strata of society, ‘grandchildren (2) they fail to connect the dots of sociely, self and (4) Allthe above three qualfy as examples, history. (3) they nave no control over the structural changes 54. The benefit of sociological imagination, according to that take place in their society. a well-known socologist, is that it can (4) the values they have nurtured since childhood (1) help us empathise more with the personal are no longer able to help them cope with their problems of others. personal words (2) force us to look at the larger picture thereby identifying the roots ofa problem. 53. Which of the following can qualify as an (8) pave way for a cooperative effort to tackle examplelexamples of the tension between private Societal problems. options and public issues, where changes in society (4) help man come’ to terms with the pace of play an important role? changes in his society and his personal ie (1) Women tying to play the roles of cultural stereotype and satisfying their own career goals. Directions for questions 55 to $7: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it A person's religion need not be his or her all-encompassing and exclusive identity. In particular, Islam, as a religion, does not obliterate responsible choice for Muslims in many spheres of life. Indeed, itis possible for one Muslim to take a confrontational view and another to be thoroughly tolerant of heterodcxy without either of them ceasing to be @ Muslim for that reason alone. ‘The response to Islamic fundamentalism and to the terrorism linked with it also becomes particularly confused when there is a general failure to distinguish between Islamic history and the history of Muslim people. Muslims, lke all other people in the world, have many different pursuits, and not all of their priorities and values need be placed within their singular identity of being Islamic. It is, of course, not surprising at all that the champions of Islamic fundamentalism ‘would like to suppress all other identities of Muslims in favour of being only Islamic. But itis extremely od that those ‘who want to overcome the tensions and conflicts linked with Istamic fundamentalism also seem unable to see Mustim people in any form other than their being just Islamic, which is combined wth attempts to redefine Islam, rather than seeing the meny-dimensional nature of diverse human beings who happen to be Muslim, People see themselves - and have reason to see themselves - in many different ways. For example, a Bangladeshi Muslim is not only @ Muslim but also a Bengali and a Bangladeshi, typically quite proud of the Bengali language, literature, and music, not to mention the other identities he or she may have connected with class, gender, occupation, politics, aesthetic taste, and so on, Bangladesh's separation from Pakistan was not based on religion at all, since a Muslim identity was shared by the bulk of the population in the two wings of undivided Pakistan. The separatist issues related to language, literature, and politics. Similarly, there is no empirical reason at all why champions of the Muslim past, or for that matter of the Arab heritage, have to concentrate specifically on religious beliefs only, and not also on science and mathematics, to which Arab and Muslim societies have contributed so much, and which can also be part of a Muslim or an Arab identity. Despite the importance of this heritage, crude classifications have tended to put science and mathematics in the basket of “Western science,” leaving other people to mine their pride in religious depths. Ifthe disaffected Arab activist today can take pride ‘only in the purity of Islam, rather than in the many-sided richness of Arab history, the unique prioritization of religion, shared by warriors on both sides, plays a major part in incarcerating people within the enclosure ofa singular identity ‘Trumphant Insitute of Management Education Pv Lid. (FLM-E) HO: 058, 2” Flor, Sldamsety Complex, Sesunderafad 500 005, ‘Tel: 040-27898194/95 Fay : 040-27847334 email: inforatimededucction.com website: ww simededucaton com — MCIOI01/7Even the frantic Western search for ‘the moderate Muslim" confounds moderation in political beliefs with moderateness Cf religious faith. A person can have strong religious faith - Islamic or any other along with tolerant politics. Emperor ‘Saladin, who fought valiantly for Islam in the Crusades in the twelfth century, could offer, without any contradiction, an honoured place in his Egyptian royal court to Maimondies as that distinguished Jewish philosopher fled an intolerant Europe. When, at the tum of the sixteenth century, the heretic Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Campo dei Fiori in Rome, the Great Mughal emperor Akbar (who was bom a Muslim and died a Muslim) had just finished, in Agra, his large project of legally cosifying minority rights, including religious freedom for all The insistence, if only implicitly, on a choiceless singulerty of human identity not only diminishes us all, it also makes the world much more flammable. The alternative to the divisiveness of one pre-eminent categorization is nat any unreal claim that we are ell much the same. That we are not. Rather, the main hope of hermony in our troubled worid lies in the plurality of our identities, which cut across each other and work against sharp divisions around one single hardened line Cf vehement division that allegedly cannot be resisted. Our shared humanity gets savagely challenged when our differences are narrowed into one devised system of uniquely powerful categorization Perhaps the worst impairment comes form the neglect - and denial - of the role of reasoning and choice, which follows from the recognition of cur plural identities. The ilusion of unique identity is much more divisive than the universe of plural and diverse classifications that characterize the world in which we actually live. The descriptive weakness of Cchoiceless singularity has the effect of momentously impoverishing the power and reach of our social and political reasoning. The illusion of destiny exacts a remarkably heavy price, 58. A mistake made by the West in relation to the ©. Education is the only way to overcome religious Musiim is (1) ignoring the fact that, historically, some Christians nave been as fanatical as some Muslims. (2) the belief that no famous Muslim ruler has given due recognition to people of other faiths. (3) the assumption that the strength of political boliof and religious faith go hand in hand. (4) the tendency to believe that Istam ordains its followers to persecute non-Muslims, 3. Identify the statements that are true, according to the passage. a. If the Muslims were to focus on their other achievements, tensions and wars. involving them would be greatly diminished. extremism, d. There are a lot of things, apart from religion, of which the Mustims can rightly be proud of. fe. The West is guilly of appropriating to itself progress in science and mathematics in other Part of the world (1) Only aande (3) Oniye,d and (2) Only b, dande (4) Onlya, bande 7. The author firmly believes that (1) our recognition of our multiple identities wil help Us to be more reasonable. (2) the West is at least partially responsible for the fanaticism of the Muslims. (9) priotizing any of our other identities will solve the problem of religious terrorism. b. Religious conflicts tend to imprison people (4) a deeply religious person is incapable of within the confines of religion. ‘moderation in politcal or social life Directions for questions 58 to 60: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it. Imagine trying to live in a worid dominated by dehydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or smell and is so variable in its properties that it is generally benign but at other times swifty lethal. Depending on its state, it can scald you or freeze you. In the presence of certain organic molecules it can form carbonic acids so nasty that they can strip the leaves from trees and eat the faces of statuary. In bulk, when agitated, it can strike with a fury that no human edifice ‘could withstand. Even for those who have learned to live with i, itis an often murderous substance. We call it water. Waler is everywhere. A potato is 80 per cent water, a cow 74 per cent, a bacterium 75 per cent. A tomato, at 95 per cent, is litle but water. Even humans are 65 per cent water, making us more liquid than solid by a margin of almost two to one. Water is a strange stuff. Itis formless and transparent and yet we long to be beside it. Ithas no taste and yet we love the taste of it. We wil travel great distances and pay small fortunes to see it in sunshine. And even though we know itis dangerous and drowns tens of thousands of people every year, we can't wait to folic ini. Because water is so ubiquitous we tend to overlook what an extraordinary substance itis. Almost nothing about it can bbe used to make reliable predictions about the properties of other liquids, and vice versa. If you knew nothing of water and based your assumptions on the behaviour of compounds most chemically akin to it ~ hydrogen selenide or hhydrogen sulphide, notably - you would expect it to boll at minus 93 degree Celsius and to be a gas at room temperature, Most liquids when chilled contract by about 10 per cent. Water does too, but only down to a point. Once it is within whispering distance of freezing, it begins — perversely, beguilingly, extremely improbably — to expand. By the time itis solid, itis almost a tenth more voluminous than it was before. Because it expands, ice floats on water ~ ‘an utterly bizarre property’, according to John Gribbin. If it lacked this splendid waywardness, ice would sink, and lakes and ‘oceans would freeze from the bottom up. Without surface ice to hold heat in, the water's warmth would radiate away, leaving it even chiller and creating yet more ice. Soon, even the oceans would freeze and elmost certainly stay that way for a very long time, probably forever — hardly the conditions to nurture life. Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics. “Triumphant Insitute of Management Education Pv Lid. (FAME) HO, 95D, Moor, Sidanscty Complen, Secunderabad S00 005 ‘Tel: 040-27898194I95 Fax: 040-27847334 ema: info@simededucatin.cem website : www timeeducationcom — MCIOLIOU8Everyone know that water's chemical formula in H:0, which means that it consists of one largish oxygen atom with two smaller hydrogen atoms attached to it. The hydrogen atoms cling fiercely to their oxygen host, but also make casual ‘bonds with other water molecules. The nature of a water molecule means that it engages in a kind of dance with other water molecules, briefly pairing and then moving on, lke the ever-changing partners in a quadril, to use Robert Kunzing's nice phrase. A glass of water may not appear terribly lively, but every molecule in itis changing partners billions of times a second. That's why water molecules stick together to form bodies like puddles and lakes, but not so tightly that they can't be easily separated as when, for instance, you drive into a pool of them. At any given moment only 15 per cent of them are actually touching In one sense the bond is very strong — it's why water molecules can flow uphill when siphoned and why water droplets on a ‘car bonnet show such a singular determination to bead with their partners. tis also why water has surface tension. The ‘molecules at the surface are attracted more powerfuly to the like molecules beneath and beside them than to the air ‘molecules above. This creates a sort of membrane strong enough to support insects and skipping stones. Itis what gives the sting to a belly-fop. | hardly need point out that we would be lost without it. Deprived of water, the human body rapidly falls apart. Within days, the lips vanish ‘as if amputated, the gums blacken, the nose withers to half its length, and the skin so contracts around the eyes as to prevent blinking’, according to one account. Water is 60 vital to us that itis easy to overlook that all but the smallest fraction ofthe water on Earth is poisonous to us ~ deacly poisonous — because of the salts within it '58. The author is thankful that water is unaware of ‘the (3) It attracts people even though itis known to be rules of chemistry or the laws of physics’ because dangerous, even fatal (1) thatis what makes it so interesting, (4) Ithas unique properties that benefit life on the (2) that hejps in distinguishing it from the other planet. chemicals akin to it (3) had it been otherwise, all aquatic life would 60. How does the author talk about water in the passage? have been threatened. (1) Ina deeply involved and passionate manner (4) it defies all the laws in blissful ignorance, (2) In an analytical and dispassionate manner (3) Through a series of mutually contradictory 59. How is water an extraordinary substance? phrases and clauses (1) Itis found nearly everywhere on planet earth, (4) By building up to a climax and then crashing to (2) Itcan be both lfe giving and life threatening, an anti-climax ‘Tomphant netiute of Wanagement Education PVE Lid. (FaLME) HO: 955, 2° Floor, Siddamsety Complex, Secunderabad S000 ‘Tel: 040-2789819495 Fax 040-27847334 email: info@timededucationcom website : www.timeteducationcom MCIO1101/9